Haunting Season

About Haunting Season

Haunting Season is a weekly Podcast, produced by Believe Limited and Matt Gielen and hosted by Joshua Sterling Bragg and Cody Dugan. The show was originally built as a digital campfire around which to tell scary stories. Bragg launched Haunting Season in February of 2013 and released one compact paranormal story per week. By the end of 2015 Haunting Season had gained 16K subscribers. The show went on hiatus for undisclosed reasons but has remained on Bragg's mind these past five years…. Today, the show faces a new chapter as an audio/ video podcast. The reimagined Haunting Season keeps storytelling at its core with a two part original story every month (best listened to in the dark with headphones). The Haunting Season story experience is meant to fully engage your senses - with a high quality 360 degree audio journey that is built to transport, transfix, and (occasionally) terrify listeners. In addition to the HS story experience, Josh is joined by Co-Host (radio personality and fellow horror enthusiast) Cody Dugan. Together they talk about what they find scary and to people that have experienced the paranormal first hand. They will talk about the historic hauntings and how beliefs in the paranormal vary between different cultures. They also review supernatural films and books, speak with fear-topic authors and filmmakers, and occasionally take a look back at the HS archive of scary stories…. and (super) naturally, live shows can be expected around annual haunting traditions such as All Hallow's Eve. Haunting Season isn't just about scares, it's about facing the unknown and taking a deep look at some of life's most challenging unanswered questions… the afterlife, the sensory fog of feeling something just out of reach…. The show is for truth seekers, skeptics and genre-fans alike - and for anyone that has ever been transfixed while aiming to answer the question: what happens after you die?

Publisher

Joshua Sterling Bragg

Category

fiction · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Sept 2020

Latest episode

14 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

74 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Feb 2025

   A Funeral for Osgood Perkins - The Monkey Movie Review - Haunting Season

   Josh explores a mock funeral for Osgood Perkins and reviews the upcoming horror film *The Monkey*, finding unexpected enjoyment in a cemetery visit.

2. 

   5 Feb 2025

   Josh Ruben's Heart Eyes Killer Success - Movie Review

   Joshua Sterling Bragg reviews Josh Ruben's new horror romcom/slasher film *Heart Eyes*, sharing non-spoiler thoughts about why it makes the perfect gory date movie.

3. 

   12 Dec 2022

   HorrorTok - Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium

   Joshua Sterling Bragg explores R. L. Stein's appearance in a musical, childhood horror nostalgia, and theater ghosts within the realm of HorrorTok.

Who has been a guest on Haunting Season

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lucy Baal
• Robin
• Steven C Miller
• Kyra Elise Gardner
• Dan Berk

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,532,682

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.